Books
GUYS AND DOLLS: The Stories of Damon Runyon (Penguin: $12.50; 411 pp . ).
Nov. 1, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
When you look at the gray tapioca that American newspapers have become, it’s hard to believe they ever spawned Damon Runyon, who covered his first hanging at 11 and grew up to create Broadway by populating it with Nicely-Nicely and Harry the Horse, Madame La Gimp, Nathan Detroit and Little Miss Marker.
Sept. 29, 1991
Lifestyle
The anthology “ ‘ Guys and Dolls’ and Other Writings” gives us a fresh look at the classic writing of Damon Runyon. Also: New paperback releases by Saul Friedlander, Fred Vargas, Peter Schrag and more.
May 25, 2008
Glenn Casale concocts his own version of beloved dance-musical surrounding the high-rolling Damon Runyon characters. The experiment works.
June 7, 1999
Television
Madonna, playing a showgirl flapper and coiffed like a Louise Brooks Kewpie-doll, briefly enlivens the Damon Runyon-inspired “Bloodhounds of Broadway” on “American Playhouse” at 9 tonight (Channels 28 and 15).
May 23, 1990
The first sentence of John Schulian’s review (Sept. 29) of “Damon Runyon”--”When you look at the gray tapioca that American newspapers have become . . .”
Oct. 20, 1991
Sports
I have just read Jim Murray’s column about Al Davis and the oldest permanent floating crap game on the West Coast (my apologies to Damon Runyon).
Sept. 22, 1990
Mr.
July 31, 1994
Archives
Eight Men Out (Showtime Sunday at 2 p.m.): As he spins his mesmerizing story of the fixing of the 1919 World Series, John Sayles moves to a new level of dexterity as a writer-director.
April 15, 1990
‘Guys and Dolls’: Interact Theatre Company’s latest venture into tailored-to-fit musical theater is the Frank Loesser-Jo Swerling-Abe Burrows classic, based on Damon Runyon’s story about denizens of Times Square’s seamier environs.
Jan. 15, 2004